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You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Writing is hard, hard work; that's just the way it is.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

As a writer, you have to believe you're one of the best writers in the world. To sit down every day at the typewriter filled with self-doubt is not a good idea.

If I spent my time worrying about what other people would think of my work, I would be too self-conscious to write.

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard.

As a writer, you need a strong sense of self-belief. And when it comes to writing, I've always had that.

Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, 'Right. Now I understand how this is done.'